WIP challenge: day 30 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

We're almost to the end of this month's challenge! How is the penultimate day going?

Poll #9324

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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How's the fic going today?

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Fantastic!
2 (14.3%)

All right
3 (21.4%)

It's... there
5 (35.7%)

Not very well
2 (14.3%)

DON'T EVEN ASK
2 (14.3%)

& what have you done?

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Wrote
7 (50.0%)

Edited
5 (35.7%)

Posted
2 (14.3%)

Sent to beta
2 (14.3%)

Researched
3 (21.4%)

Refreshed canon
0 (0.0%)

Took a break
4 (28.6%)

For discussion: This post talks about how the "like" culture (embodied by Facebook or retweeting things on Twitter or even just analyzing your site stats) can maybe make people focus too much on what other people want, instead of what they want to write/create.

Some people swear up & down that they don't care if they ever get a single comment on their fic, they're just writing for themselves. Other people say that they'd like to write something specific (different from their usual stuff) but their readers wouldn't like it -- & therefore they won't write it. I think most of us are somewhere in the middle -- what's your relationship with feedback on your fic like?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Would you write the same sort of fics for that new audience that you wrote in your previous fandom?

... yes, yes I think I would, ahahaha. Because I tend to be a one-trick pony in terms of the tropes that grab me so hard I want to write fic about them. Hm... sometimes the tropes get porny, sometimes they don't, but in terms of emotional tone & content etc. I am, er, fairly similar across fandoms, heh.

I admit I am skeptical of people who declare (loudly) that they don't care if they don't get comments. For all I know, some people genuinely mean it! But... if I've poured my heart out into a fic (not just in terms of working hard on it, but also if it's one that I do feel like a lot of my own heart & soft spots are in), it's natural to want to know that it affected someone else too.

[sharpiefan]

But... if I've poured my heart out into a fic (not just in terms of working hard on it, but also if it's one that I do feel like a lot of my own heart & soft spots are in), it's natural to want to know that it affected someone else too.

Yeah, this. Precisely. :D